Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Sweet and Lowdown(1999)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 63

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.



Nightmare Alley(2021)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 79

An ambitious carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.



Omar(2013)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he's tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier's killing.



Funny Girl(1968)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfield girl, subsequent career and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.



The Last Detail(1973)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 65

Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.



Wall Street(1987)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 55

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.



Scent of a Woman(1992)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.



A Little Princess(1995)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A young girl is relegated to servitude at a boarding school when her father goes missing and is presumed dead.



The Horse Whisperer(1998)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 60

The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.



Bicentennial Man(1999)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 56

An android endeavors to become human as he gradually acquires emotions.



I Am Sam(2001)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A mentally handicapped man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter, and in the process teaches his cold hearted lawyer the value of love and family.



Being Julia(2004)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Set in '30s London, the film involves stage actors and their experiences with love and revenge.



In Darkness(2011)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov.



Diner(1982)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A group of college-age buddies struggle with their imminent passage into adulthood in 1959 Baltimore.



The Karate Kid(1984)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A martial arts master agrees to teach karate to a bullied teenager.



Dangerous Liaisons(1988)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 56

A scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman.



A River Runs Through It(1992)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 58

The story about two sons of a stern minister -- one reserved, one rebellious -- growing up in rural Montana while devoted to fly fishing.



Mrs. Doubtfire(1993)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 53

After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his former wife.



Nixon(1995)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A biographical story of former U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon, from his days as a young boy, to his eventual Presidency, which ended in shame.



Eraser(1996)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.




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